ModelPriceWatch.com
Last scan 2026-11-14 Models tracked 315 Providers 42 Cheapest paid pplx-decider-flash-v1.3 $0.010/Mtok in Every price links to its source

Grok 4.6

by xAI

Current flagship mid tier
Email me when Grok 4.6 gets cheaper

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$3.00

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.500

25% of input — prompt caching

Source: official xAI pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-11-14

Price receipt

We read xAI's own pricing page on and found grok-4.6 listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 3c6a508006.

Overview

Builds on Grok 4.5 with a focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work, and matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. 500K context, configurable reasoning effort. $2/$6 per 1M tokens; prompts above 200K tokens bill at the long-context tier of $4/$12.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/4
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score79.2%
Perf per $/Mtok26.4
GPQA Diamond
94.7%
SWE-Bench Verified
95.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
88.4%
LiveCodeBench
88.2%
Humanity's Last Exam
43%
ARC-AGI 2
65.1%

Sources: Vals AI (GPQA Diamond, high effort) (GPQA Diamond) · Vals AI (SWE-bench Verified, high effort) (SWE-Bench Verified) · Artificial Analysis (Terminal-Bench 2.1, high) (Terminal-Bench 2.1) · Vals AI (LiveCodeBench v6, high effort) (LiveCodeBench) · Artificial Analysis (text-only, no tools, high) (Humanity's Last Exam) · ARC Prize verified leaderboard, ARC-AGI-2 semi-private eval, High effort (ARC-AGI 2)

Independent composite scores
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1627 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • Arena (arena.ai): 1456.7 ELO (Human preference)
  • Arena WebDev: 1618.1 ELO (Human preference on building web apps)
  • Arena Vision: 1263.2 ELO (Human preference on image-input prompts)
  • Arena Agent: -0.002 (Score from real agent sessions (IPS); higher is better)
  • Arena Agent cost per task: $1.36 (Median measured cost of one real Agent Arena task)
  • Epoch Capabilities Index: 157.8 (CI 155.8–159.9) (Epoch AI's index fitted across many benchmarks)
  • FrontierMath Tiers 1–3: 66% (xhigh effort) (Research-level maths (funded by OpenAI, run by Epoch); best run across the effort settings Epoch tested)
  • FrontierMath Tier 4: 31.7% (xhigh effort) (Hardest research maths; best run across the effort settings Epoch tested)

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

Source: Epoch AI (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY 4.0

Source: Arena (arena.ai) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0

How it stacks up
  • Ranks #15 of 100 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #19 of 189 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 8 independent measurements
  • Ranks #111 of 189 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 94.7%, #3 of 71

57.8 tokens/sec output

Throughput: Artificial Analysis, recorded 2026-08-27 · Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

Source: ARC Prize verified leaderboard, ARC-AGI-2 semi-private eval, High effort, Artificial Analysis, Artificial Analysis (Terminal-Bench 2.1, high) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
xAI
Context window
500K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
flagshipmultimodal

Availability verified: — listed on xAI's own page

Try on xAI Official pricing page